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Pond Poetess
@lauraskylark.bsky.social
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🖤🥀🌊 Dark and beautiful things. Books and teaching. Interested in writing and arts, hand embroidery, poetry, (dark) fantasy and academia, horror, the ocean, nature in general and the (Eco)Gothic. Fond of dancing, yoga, green tea, the Moomins, goblincore 💃🏼🧘🏽‍♀️
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 2d
Welcome to #WeekofWonders - a place for all of you (also on x)-providing a weekly prompt for writing, arts and crafts, related music, your thoughts, photos etc. Join in! I will change the pinned post each Monday. Use the # for retweets.
Week 51: #squirrels
a cartoon squirrel is hugging another squirrel while sitting on the ground .
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 21h
A favourite animal (story by @lauraskylark.bsky.social )
Her favourite animal in the world was the squirrel and colleagues and friends made use of that information a lot - she got birthday cakes with nuts - socks with tiny woollen squirrels, surprise squirrel postcards and all what they could come up with. She never got bored or fed up with her theme though. Some of her closest friends even made jokes she was secretly a squirrel - with her long elegant teeth, her love for brown raincoats and her reddish -brown curls. Her autumn and winter absences - explained with long stays in warmer areas and workcations with only her laptop and the tropic sea…. also established the impression she did a kind of winter rest - as colleagues and friends missed her happy squirrely personality in the colder part of the year. It was time again - October soon came to a close - the shops were decorated with pumpkins, ghouls and ghosts, the streets smelled like pumpkin spice and rain, she had booked her flights. Her pretence flights which she actually never did board. She walked through the park to her favourite gnarly oak tree. A beauty of 200 years with a rich treasure of acorns and several tree hollows - high above the hustle and bustle of the park visitors. Right now she was alone - as she preferred it. She stripped naked - putting her clothes into a bag she put in a tree hollow just right for it and hid it with leaves. Then the shivering began. Not because of the cold - it was the usual procedure. Her last conscious thought was: “It is not too bad to turn into a were -squirrel for half a year!” Afterwards only soft thoughts came and went - thoughts of sleeping and warmth and snow and hiding places and rest. A comfort.
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 20h
Wonderful squirrel story and well- chosen pic that I also enjoy! ☺️
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Peggy Andreas @roamerrainbow.bsky.social · 1d
#WeekofWonders Here's a little story and a pic (not my pic, but I just enjoyed it!)
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Gail @gailthesnail.bsky.social · 2d
Week 51: #squirrels
A red squirrel and a grey squirrel ❤️
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 21h
A favourite animal (story by @lauraskylark.bsky.social )
Her favourite animal in the world was the squirrel and colleagues and friends made use of that information a lot - she got birthday cakes with nuts - socks with tiny woollen squirrels, surprise squirrel postcards and all what they could come up with. She never got bored or fed up with her theme though. Some of her closest friends even made jokes she was secretly a squirrel - with her long elegant teeth, her love for brown raincoats and her reddish -brown curls. Her autumn and winter absences - explained with long stays in warmer areas and workcations with only her laptop and the tropic sea…. also established the impression she did a kind of winter rest - as colleagues and friends missed her happy squirrely personality in the colder part of the year. It was time again - October soon came to a close - the shops were decorated with pumpkins, ghouls and ghosts, the streets smelled like pumpkin spice and rain, she had booked her flights. Her pretence flights which she actually never did board. She walked through the park to her favourite gnarly oak tree. A beauty of 200 years with a rich treasure of acorns and several tree hollows - high above the hustle and bustle of the park visitors. Right now she was alone - as she preferred it. She stripped naked - putting her clothes into a bag she put in a tree hollow just right for it and hid it with leaves. Then the shivering began. Not because of the cold - it was the usual procedure. Her last conscious thought was: “It is not too bad to turn into a were -squirrel for half a year!” Afterwards only soft thoughts came and went - thoughts of sleeping and warmth and snow and hiding places and rest. A comfort.
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 1d
Walking into the bluest blue - Baltic Sea, Denmark
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 1d
Absolutely lovely and awesome fur texture
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 1d
They hide your postings on x! One can only access them going to your profile and then reading the „answers“ section….Glad to see you here though!
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 1d
Troldkirken, Aalborg Kommune, DK
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 2d
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Finally tackling Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell!
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 4d
#amreading
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Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 3d
It's Monday again and today I'm reading The Employees by Olga Ravn translated by Martin Aitken

What book(s) are you reading this week?

💙📚 #BookSky #AmReading #MondayReads #TBR

alt text in images please
white circle in a blue background and the words "It's Monday! What are you reading?" in the circle
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a2z @a2zillustrations.bsky.social · 2d
Mushroom chilling

Now on my Etsy: a2zillustrations.etsy.com

#mushroomcore #mushroom #watercolor #illustration #traditionalart #fantasy #originalart #autumnvibes #fallvibes #art
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 2d
Spoiler: Next week’s topic will be —-> #black_cats and other black animals
a black cat 's eyes are visible through a hole in a wall .
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 2d
Welcome to #WeekofWonders - a place for all of you (also on x)-providing a weekly prompt for writing, arts and crafts, related music, your thoughts, photos etc. Join in! I will change the pinned post each Monday. Use the # for retweets.
Week 51: #squirrels
a cartoon squirrel is hugging another squirrel while sitting on the ground .
ALT: a cartoon squirrel is hugging another squirrel while sitting on the ground .
media.tenor.com
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 3d
So very fitting 😍
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 4d
#amreading
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 4d
Blå himmel over Danmark.
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 5d
😍Found this at a my way back from the bakery. Think the fairies danced there last night. Their laughing voices lingered somewhat.
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Madeline Potter @madelinepotter.bsky.social · 12d
Tune in to listen to a podcast made live at the Bradford Lit Festival, with me discussing my book, ‘The Roma’, with the brilliant Damian Le Bas:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxq9...
S4: E7 - The Roma: A Travelling History
YouTube video by Bradford Literature Festival
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Gemma Matthews - The Sewing Songbird @thesewingsongbird.bsky.social · 12d
My embroidery, The Weather Maiden for you this morning. Seems apt as it looks like we might get everything today… Stay safe everyone. 😊🪡🌿🌦️🌈🌬️ *completely freehand stitched in May 2020. #stitchedart #thesewingsongbird
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Nature Nurture 🌿✨ @naturenurture.bsky.social · Nov 15
Hello Bluesky! I’ve finally made the move over from X!
My name is Emily Weatherall & I go by Nature Nurture, I am a self taught embroidery, textile and needlepoint artist 🪡 🧵

Inspired by fantasy, folklore, mythology, medieval tapestry & storytelling✨🌿🗡️
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 5d
Yes. Thank you!
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Gail @gailthesnail.bsky.social · 5d
Week 50: #sweaters, #cardigans and #blankets
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Pond Poetess @lauraskylark.bsky.social · 10d
Memories - dedicated to my grandma. A text by @lauraskylark.bsky.social .
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